E'rato
(
Ἐρατώ), a nymph and the wife of Areas, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan.
She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan. (
Paus. 8.27.9; ARCAS.) There are two other mythical personages of this name, the one a Muse and the other a Nereid. (
Apollod. 1.3.1,
2.6;
Hes. Th. 247.)
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